Adoption Is A Non Genetic

I will be using this source from pages nine to eleven. It talks about the history of foster care, what it is like, and child welfare. It explains the past when children worked in fields and in the house. Since this was going on around the 1800’s, death was very common among young children and adults. These problems soon led to the foster care system. It was discovered in the late 1800’s. The children traveled to New York to get away from their troubles and to find a better life. Those children were later adopted and given a new life because many believed those parents were not parenting in the right way. They were given a life that would let them strive and become educated. It states that the foster care is something that is growing every day, helping those children in need. Most of the cases mentioned, the children were abused and the foster care was the only way to help them.

Foster Care and Adoption are the most multi-faceted areas of child welfare. Foster care consists of placing children outside of the custody of their parents or legal guardians. This out-of-home placement can be temporary or long-term. Adoption on the other hand, consists of the legal and permanent process that establishes a parent/child relationship between individuals not related biologically (Downs, Moore, & McFadden, 2009). These two areas of child welfare are constantly evolving and the decisions made on a child’s behalf can affect many areas of their biological, spiritual, social, and emotional wellbeing.

Making big choices in life can be difficult, especially if that big choice is having children. There are many men and women who are infertile that still want to have children. Most decide to adopt other children who do not have families or their families do not want them. But when adoption is not an option, there is now a way where those men and women can have their own children together through fertility treatments. Fertility treatments could be a good thing:being able to freeze egg and sperm, they can help infertile couples, and avoiding transmitted diseases would be easier.

No two children in foster care have the same background. The youths can vary by the age when placed into care, the number of times they were put into care, the quality of the home and family they lived with, and the youths own emotional outlooks (Zlotnick 539). They can develop abandonment issues due to being separated from their biological parents, and stunted emotional growth due to the trauma that foster care puts on a young child. Children need to be raised in a stable and safe environment, and while plenty of foster care parents are loving and nurturing to the child, they may still be affected by being raised by multiple families in a negative way. Every year, over 1 million children experience maltreatment, and about half of these children enter foster care (Greeson et al. 92). Those who enter foster care have usually encountered multiple traumatic events, from either their parents or another caregiver in their lives.

When a couple or individual decides to adopt a child, they know they are going to take on the responsibility of taking care of someone else’s child. Due to the biological parent(s) who can’t take care of that child anymore, because of either drug abuse, alcohol abuse, abuse to the child or if the parent(s) had died and there is no other care for the child. So that’s why this gives other couples who cannot have kids, the opportunity to promise themselves to be a great parent to a child in need. Though there are some bad things about adoption as well. Like adopting a child from another country of another race, because once that child is adopted into an American family, he or she will be cut off from their culture and never know about their

Foster care is intended to be a short term solution until a permanent placement can be made. Generally, the first choice of adoptive parents is a relative such as an aunt, uncle, or grandparent, known as kinship care”(Foster Care Wikipedia). If no relative is willing or able to take the child into their home, they move on to the next alternative, which is a close friend or someone else involved in the child’s life such as a teacher or coach. If a parent willingly put their child into foster care because of reasons like disabilities,physical or mental, financial problems, or sexuality, that is known as voluntary placement. Involuntary placement is when a child is removed from their legal guardian, due to abuse or neglect to the child. When a child is placed into a foster home, the foster parents are responsible for the child's well-being (Wikipedia). Adopt us Kids says, “When a child is placed in your home, you will need to ensure their well-being in that their emotional, medical, dental, and educational needs are being met”(Being a Foster Parent). Adopt us kids also states, “For Sleeping arrangements, most children may share bedrooms. They must have a separate bed and children of the opposite sex can only share a room if they are under the age specified by the state”(Adopt Us Kids). This can also be waived to keep siblings together and in sight of each other. If a babysitter is needed for the foster child, they will need to be at least eighteen years or older, or approved by the state, if that state has certain

As I stated previously children are not something that I crave or even want. If my opinion does change I would opt for in vitro fertilization. This is essentially the process in which women are given hormones to up here chances of pregnancy. It is expensive but it is a lot less expensive than adoption. Although, with adoption I would be giving a child a chance at a better future than they would otherwise receive. For some not having children would be life changing but for me it really would not.

There are many people in the world who for some reason do have have the ability to have children. This does not mean they should not be a parent or that they cannot be a parent. Many of these families consider being foster parents or even adopting children so they can experience parenthood. Not everyone is meant to be a foster parents, although it is relatively easy to become a foster

“It’s about my entire life, it’s not just about my childhood. I want to know that I’m going to have someone to walk me down the aisle. That I’m going to have grandparents for my children.” -Mary (a girl in foster care). Adoption and foster care is used as a solution to a child not having an adequate home, but because of its many issues, the child is put into an unfavorable position and left with an uncertain future. Foster care is when a child is placed into a home and waits for a family to adopt them. Adoption is the act of taking legal responsibility of a child and to protect them . On paper, it sounds likes like an act of kindness, but adoption and foster care has many issues tied to it. Due to the many problems of adoption and foster care, such as the environment in a foster home, the behavior of their peers, mental instability, the adoption process, a child that experienced it impact their life negatively, as demonstrated in The Murderer’s Daughter by Randy Susan Meyers.

If the child becomes available for adoption, foster parents may apply to adopt. The child best interest is the primary consideration when selecting a forever family. Whereas adoption is legal and permanent parental custody of a child along with all rights, responsibilities, and filiation. The adoptive parent take on all responsibilities of raising the child. (Center, 2017)

Thanks to several movies there is a scene where babies are dropped off at the doorstep of a foster home. Later found by the foster parent never knowing who or where their family is. In reality, most foster kids actually know their family, but due to certain circumstances cannot take care of the child. As per the text of www.adoptuskids.org another misconception is that “foster parent will receive little to no support from the state”. But in reality foster parents receive a reimbursement to cover the cost of food and clothing, and medical, dental, and counseling services for foster children are covered by Medicaid.

Foster care is a system were a child is put into after the parents gives them up. The child will stay in the system until he or she is adopted. If the child is never adopted they will be released at the age of 20. The children of the foster care system are there because they were voluntarily given up by the parent or taken away if the parent can't fit the role. There are many cons to the foster care system.

What is foster care and adoption? Foster care is where a parent or parents have died or are unfit to take care of the child or children and is placed in a foster home until they are old enough to get on their own. Adoption is if the foster parent or parents wants to keep the child they have been placed with or they want a child and they can't have one of their

Embryo adoption also known as embryo donation is a one of a kind thing. Couples who are infertile typically chose in vitro fertilization (IVF), intrauterine insemination (IUI), adoption, or a less common method of embryo adoption. Couple who choose the first, IVF, go through a process of obtaining eggs and sperm, allowing the embryo(s) to form outside of the body, and then having the embryo implanted into the mother’s uterus. Typically, multiple embryos are developed and the parents either choose to keep them for later use or when they are finished, sometimes forget about the embryos and in time, they die. Unfortunately, many couples are not informed about donating their frozen and leftover embryos to clinics, where other infertile couples can adopt them. The good news is, it is becoming more popular and people are becoming more educated. Embryo adoptions is such a great thing and more couples should really consider it.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with a childless couple wanting to adopt a baby—it would certainly be a wonderful, life-changing decision for both the parents and the child—but this still leaves a fairly large group of older children without a home to call their own. “Because of changes in legislation and policies regarding child welfare, increasing numbers of older children are being placed for adoption. Many of these children are defined as having ‘special needs’ and include children who are at risk for physical, emotional, or behavioral problems” (Schweiger). Statistics today show that the majority of children put up for adoption are said to have special needs, which could be any number of things that might make finding a home more difficult for them: they could be a racial minority, have emotional or physical issues, be of an older age, have siblings that cannot be separated from them, have behavioral problems, or possess a record of difficulty in past adoptive placements (Wind). All of these children are desperately in need of a family to call their own, although some children—such as those who are of an older age or those who have siblings that they do not wish to be split up from— have a significantly more difficult time finding one. Infertile couples are clearly the more traditional adoptive parents, but it would certainly be impossible for every child to find a home if they were the only group looking to adopt. According to Rene Hoksbergen, the